While fructose is also the main sugar in fruit, fruit contains vitamins and fiber that in most cases, block the negative effects of this dietary sugar. After only two weeks of this high-fructose diet, subjects showed significant increases in blood pressure and other symptoms thought to be precursors for heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, such as higher fasting blood sugar levels and higher cholesterol. Hypertension April, 2011

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Life jackets were obtained, Sugar Shots ( three of them ) were housed in Joe's Tallygear Tummietote. A blood sugar was obtained before we headed out. I took approximately 36grams of carbs in the three Sugar Shots. More on "Sugar Shots".

You might think you have a touch of the sugar. Oh dear god how I wish I had a blue dress to wear today! Instead, I settled for a blue camisole under a brown printed wrap dress that I like. The blue is for diabetes awareness. The brown is because.diabetes makes us feel like crap? grin* Diabetes sucks. Diabetes is everywhere in the world. It shortens people's lives. It kills children and adults in places where good care is not available or even remotely affordable. MORE >>

Keep smiling, sugar. Today, 11/1/11, has been declared Type 1 Day by the JDRF, who has been encouraging people with Type 1 to post their T1D-in-3 tweets to Twitter all day long. I posted a couple, but I don't want to overdo it with the tweets--it's still the workday, after all. We are to come up with three words that describe having type 1, what it's like to live with type 1, or something you want people to know about type 1. And I, of course, am extraordinarily silly. MORE >>

It was time to check a blood sugar on the aforementioned patient. This event occurred several years before Joe was popping out of me screaming like a baby, so diabetes and blood sugars were just a condition to me. Back in the day I don't think mascara technology was what it is now in 2011. I explained to him that by over squeezing his finger to get the blood bubble that he could cause an inaccurate blood sugar reading. MORE >>